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JAMES ARKELL, OF OANAJOHAPIE, NEV YORK.

METHOD OF MAKING PAPER BAGS.

SPECZFZCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,148, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed May 13, 1885.

To (I/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES ARKELL, of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Method of Making Paper Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a method of making bellows-bottom paper bags of the kind having a bottom seam and one side seam only, and such as shown in another application filed by me September 13, 1884, No. 143,015.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l isa plan view of a blank adapted to be folded up into a bag having a bellows bottom and one side seam only. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the blank after the first folding operation toward making the bag. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank subsequent to the second folding operation. Fig. -t is a like View after the third and last fold has been made. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the bagbottoin opened out, and looking at the interior thereof; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the exterior surface of the bottom of the bag spread out as in condition lor use.

In the several views the sameletter of reference will be found to indicate the same part.

A, Fig. 1., is the blank, (of paper or other suitable material,) which is preferably creased along the lines 1, 2, and 3, to facilitate folding, as well understood, and which is supplied with suitable adhesive matter along the narrow flap-like portion a, at the extremity of one of the longer sides of the sheet, and also along the edge or edge portion 5 of one of the shorter sides of the sheet, but on the opposite side or face of the blank, as seen at Fig. 2. A portion of the stock of the blank is removed from the fiaplike portion 0 from at about a point opposite the line 1 to the lower edge of the sheet, as shown, and the remaining triangular-like portion 0 of flap c from line 1 to the bottom edge of the blank is preferably not supplied with paste or other adhesive matter.

To make a bag from a blank of the form shown at Fig. 1, and supplied with paste, as described, and preferably preliminarily creased on the lines indicated, proceed as follows:

(No model.)

Fold on the line 1 the lower portion of the blank, and double it upon itself lengthwise of the sheet, and bring the blank into the condition illustrated at Fig. 2. Next fold on the line 2 and bring the parts a Z) a I) face to face, with the pasted portions on a I) coinciding, and the blank will then be in the condition illustrated at Fig. 3. Then fold on the line 3 and turn over the pasted flap 0 down onto and secure it to the portion 1), as represented at Fig. i. In making this last fold it will be understood, of course, that the triangular-like portion 0 of the tiap c is also turned over against 1), and is confined between the latter and the flap 0 when these parts shall have been pasted together. The finished bag (shown at Fig. 4) is now preferably, though not necessarily, creased obliquely along the dotted lines at 4, to facilitate the opening of the bag into square-bottom form.

It will be seen from Figs. 4 and 5 that by folding and pasting ablank of the form shown at Fig. 1 (which is the best form now known to me) in the manner described a bag is produced with a bellmvsbottom, which may be opened or distended in square or rectangular form, and which has two seams, one at the middle of the bottom of the bag and the other at one side only thereof. A bag of such construction may be readily and cheaply made by machinery, as'will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which my inven tion relates.

The blank may have its paste applied either while in a perfect ly-open condition, as at Fig. 1, or in a partially-folded condition, as at Fig. 2. and it done while in the last-named state the triangulanlike portion (1' may be couven iently pasted simultaneously with the side flap, 0,- but, as before intimated, there is no actual necessity to paste this supplemental portion a, as the pasted flap 0 overlaps it when folded down onto the part or side I) of the bag.

Having now so fully described my invention that those skilled in the art to which it appertains may make bags of the kind re ferrcd to in a simpler and better way than heretofore, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hereinbefore-described method of mak ing a bellows-bottom bag with one side seam and one seam at the iniddle of the bottom, fiztp c and securing it to the part1), alias shown which consists in folding the blank shown on and described.

the line 1, thereby doubling it at its lower In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my portion, in applying adhesive matter at the hand this 4th day of May, 1885.

5 localities c and 5, in folding next on the line JAMES ARKELL.

2 and bringing the parts a b a b face to face, In presence ofwith the pasted portions on a and b coineid- P. D. VAN OLINDEE, ing, and then folding on the line 3 the pasted in. N. SMITH. 

